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Golden Tunes Records
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Amy ShuhCase IVEY-9B13B012-EAccounting and ControlTwo aspiring musicians and music producers launch and incorporate their own record label. At the end of the company’s first year of operations, the partners face their first financial year-end, and they wonder how the company’s assets, many of which are intangible, should be presented in the statement of financial position.Starting at €8.20
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Anwar Aluminum Works
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Amy ShuhCase IVEY-9B14B001-EAccounting and ControlThe plant manager of an aluminum alloy production plant is faced with capacity constraints and must determine which of two new speciality orders to take on. Both orders cannot be filled simultaneously.Students are asked to: (1) perform an industry size-up of the global metals industry and its subset, the aluminum industry; (2) perform a business size-up of the company's current operations; (3) determine the pros and cons of accepting each custome...Starting at €8.20
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Mama J's Marmalade
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Amy ShuhExercise IVEY-9B14B002-EAccounting and ControlIn 2013, the chief executive officer of a marmalade manufacturing company needs to update his accounting records for the fiscal year. In order to complete this task, he gathers the previous year's financial statements and a list of cash receipts and disbursements for the current year in order to perform a financial analysis.Starting at €8.20
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Accounting for Political Risk at AES, Teaching Note
Perez Cavazos, Gerardo; Srinivasan, SurajTeaching Note HBS-118032-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for cases 118023 and 118024.Starting at €0.00
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Signet Jewelers: Assessing Customer Financing Risk, Teaching Note
Perez Cavazos, Gerardo; Srinivasan, Suraj; Pitcher, QuinnTeaching Note HBS-118067-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for case 117038.Starting at €0.00
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Creating Accountability in Afghanistan
Heese, Jonas; Perez Cavazos, Gerardo; Soltes, Eugene; Liu, GraceCase HBS-120024-EAccounting and ControlBy early 2019, the United States had contributed $132 billion to the Afghan reconstruction. John Sopko, in his role as the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), was in charge of providing accountability for U.S. aid funding. Sopko's oversight faced severe limitations such as a growing on-budget assistance, pervasive corruption, and lack of transportation, infrastructure, and security for his staff. To fight those odds, SIGA...Starting at €8.20
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Accounting for Political Risk at AES (B)
Perez Cavazos, Gerardo; Srinivasan, SurajCase HBS-118024-EAccounting and ControlSupplement to case 118023. As a global energy generating company, AES frequently faces challenges from political changes and instability. This is exacerbated by the fact that in many instances AES' primary customer is the government, which is also in charge of law-making. For example, AES' management team has encountered expropriation risks in Venezuela, collection problems in the Dominican Republic, and regulatory changes in the United States th...Starting at €5.74
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Signet Jewelers: Assessing Customer Financing Risk
Perez Cavazos, Gerardo; Srinivasan, Suraj; Baraldi, MonicaCase HBS-117038-EAccounting and ControlMarc Cohodes, a renowned short-seller, has identified weaknesses in Signet's business strategy, which he argues is heavily reliant on providing loans to customers with subprime credit score. He believes that the company accounts for its receivables portfoStarting at €8.20
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Creating Accountability in Afghanistan, Teaching Note
Heese, Jonas; Perez Cavazos, Gerardo; Soltes, Eugene; Liu, GraceTeaching Note HBS-120030-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for case 120024.Starting at €0.00
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Accounting for Leases at American Airlines (A)
Heese, Jonas; Perez Cavazos, Gerardo; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-120069-EAccounting and ControlIn March 2020, as coronavirus reduced demand for air travel, an analyst was forecasting American Airlines' (American's) first quarter financial results. To develop a forecast, she needed to familiarize herself with Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-02, "Leases (Topic 842)," passed four years earlier by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. ASU 2016-02 required companies to disclose all leases on their balance sheets, but it made an excep...Starting at €8.20